006 Vincent's Onsite Tips - Address To Rate Zone Mapping

Vincent, our CEO, is onsite with one of our high-volume refrigerated courier companies, Way To Go Refrigerated Couriers, to run you through a great tip on how Address to Rate Zone Mapping will help keep your pricing consistent but flexible. 

To learn more about CartonCloud's Address to Rate Zone Mapping functionality visit our Knowledge Base article here

Video Transcription.

Hey, Vincent here from CartonCloud and I'm onsite with Way2Go Refrigerated in Perth. I just wanted to show you through something that not a lot of clients know about, but it's this concept of address to rate zone mapping.

Now way to go use it because when they do DC deliveries, so say Coles DC, Woolworth's DC,  Metcash DC, they use it to price those jobs differently from the area that that DC's in; and the reason why you normally do this is because DC's typically have really long wait times. You know you're in a truck, you've got five other trucks in front of you, it might take you two hours just to deliver a single pallet. So typically, businesses want to charge those particular jobs differently, just because it takes them so much time.

So the way that you can set this up, is that on an address, so we're in an address right now which is the Coles DC in Kewdale; and you can click on the A2RZ mapping option at the top. So if you click on there what you can see here is that they've actually mapped it so that when they're calculating their income rate, they charge it out at a rate zone called DC Coles, so this allows them to very easily configure that any job going to this DC should be charged at a DC Coles rate so when they're pricing their customers they can specify DC Coles rates if there's multiple Coles DC's like there is around Perth, they can link all of those to the single rate card and then that way all of them will price the same but they'll all price differently to how you would price that area that the DC is based in.

So really simple solution but it allows you to do some really cool pricing and you know ensure that you're covering the cost of doing those kinds of deliveries. 

Just another one of Vincent's Onsite Tips.